Aleš Erjavec

Institute of Philosophy
Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Novi trg 2, Ljubljana, SI-1001, Slovenia

Phone: +386 1 47 06 476
Fax: +386 1 425 77 92

Date of Birth: 30 September 1951
Education: Doctorate
Research Title: Research Director
University Title: Professor

Research Activity

Philosophy, Aesthetics, Theory and Philosophy of Culture, Contemporary Art History

Research Program and Projects
Teaching Engagements
Memebership
  • Slovenian Society of Aesthetics (President from its foundation in 1984 until 1999, 2005-)
  • Associazione Italiana per gli Studi di Estetica (Honorary Member 1998-)
  • International Association for Aesthetics (President 1998-2001; member of the Executive Comitee 2001-)
Fellowships and Awards
  • C.N.R.S., Institut d'esthétique et sciences de l'art, Pariz (1979-1989)
  • Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (1993/94)
  • Research Support Scheme of the Higher Education Suppport Programme, Prague (1995-1997)
  • Open Society Institute ZUG, Budapest (1998-1999)
  • Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, project "The Post Communist Condition" (2003)
  • Hong Kong Baptist University (2009)
Lectures and Conferences

He was a visiting professor in Hong Kong, Nottingham, Uppsala, Poland, and South Africa, and an invited or “feature” speaker at more than 50 conferences in Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, The Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Latvia, Paraguay, The Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, the U.K., Uruguay, and the U.S.

Selected Bibliography

His articles, papers and book chapters were published in Canada, Chile, China, Cuba, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, The Netherlands, Paraguay, The Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S.

Books: 

  • O estetiki, umetnosti in ideologiji /On Aesthetics, Art and Ideology/ (Ljubljana 1983). 
  • Estetika in epistemologija /Aesthetics and Epistemology/ (Ljubljana 1984). 
  • Kultura kot alibi /Culture as Alibi/ (with Lev Kreft and Heinz Paetzold; Ljubljana 1988). 
  • Ideologija in umetnost modernizma /Ideology and the Art of Modernism/ (Ljubljana 1998; Serbo-Croatian edition, Sarajevo 1991). 
  • Ljubljana, Ljubljana. Slovene Art and Culture of the Eighties (with Marina Gržinić; Slovenian and English editions, Ljubljana 1991). 
  • Estetika in kritična teorija /Aesthetics and Critical Theory/ (Ljubljana 1995). 
  • K podobi /Toward the Image/ (Ljubljana 1996). 
  • Túxiàng Shídài (Changchun 2002). 
  • Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition (ed.; Berkeley 2003, Taipei 2009). 
  • Ljubezen na zadnji pogled. Avantgarda, estetika in konec umetnosti /Love at Last Sight. Avant-Garde, Aesthetics, and the End of Art/ (Ljubljana 2004). 
  • Aesthetics and/as Globalization (ed.) (Ljubljana-Beijing 2004, Beijing 2010). 
  • Postmodernism, Postsocialism, and Beyond (Newcastle 2008, Henan 2012).
  • Estetika in politika modernizma /Aesthetics and Politics of Modernism/ (Ljubljana 2009)

Book chapters (A Selection): 

  • “Das fällt ins Auge ...”, in: Gianni Vattimo & Wolfgang Welsch (eds.), Medien-Welten-Wirklichkeiten (München 1998). 
  • “L’estetica e le filosofie” in: Grazia Marchianò (ed.), Un nuovo corso per l’estetica nel dibattito internazionale (Torino 1998). 
  • “Visual Culture”, in: Lars Kiel Bertelsen et al. (eds.), Symbolic Imprints. Essays on Photography and Visual Culture (Aarhus, 1999). 
  • “Heidegger y Adorno: del modernismo al postmodernismo”, in: Adriana Almada (ed.), Identidad, Globalización y Diferencia (Asunción, Paraguay, 2002). 
  • “The Three Avant-Gardes and Their Context: The Early, the Neo, and the Postmodern”, in: Dubravka Djurić and Miško Šuvaković (eds.), The Impossible Histories (Cambridge, Mass., 2003). 
  • “Die neuen Vorzeichen der Kunst: Eine Fallstudie zu Mittel- und Osteuropa”, in: Boris Groys, Anne von der Heiden & Peter Weibel (eds.), Zurück der Zukunft. Osteuropäische Kulturen im Zeitalter des Postkomunismus (Frankfurt/Main 2005). 
  • “Visual Culture, Art, and Visual Studies”, in: Claes Entzenberg & Simo Sätelää (eds.), Perspectives on Aesthetics, Art and Culture (Stockholm 2005). 
  • “L’identità nazionale attraverso la fotografia di montagna”, in: Michael Wedekind & Claudio Ambrosi (eds.), Alla conquista dell’immaginario (Treviso 2007). 
  • “El Segundo Mundo: Postmodernismo y socialismo”, in: Desiderio Navarro (ed.), El Postmoderno, el postmodernismo y su critica en Criterios (Habana 2007).
  • “Postmodern Strategies of Subversion: Art and Ideology in the Second World”, in: Margarida Acciauoli et al. (ed.), Arte & Poder (Lisbon 2008).
  • Neue Slowenische Kunst – Nowa sztuka słoweńska, in: Ausstellung Laibach Kunst. Rekapitulacija/Rekapitulation 2009 (Łodz 2009).
  • “Art and: A Toothless Tiger, a Cuddly Panda or a Snow Leopard?”, International Yearbook of Aesthetics, Vol. 13 (Milwaukee 2009).
  • “Aesthetics and the Aesthetic: After Adorno”, in: Anthony J. Cascardi (ed.), Art and Aesthetics after Adorno (Berkeley 2010).
  • “Kivi ja koetinkivi”, in: Yrjö Sepänmaa et al. (eds.), Jalo kivi (Helsinki 2010).
     
Complete Bibliography